The difference between a standing order and a direct debit. Essentially, a standing order is an instruction to your bank, whereas a direct debit gives permission to a company to take money from you. You are the only person who can change the date or payment amount on your standing order.
Born on April 17, 1894 in Kalinovka, Russia, Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. In a 1956 secret speech, he discussed Stalin's crimes for the first time, starting a process called de-Stalinization..
It pointed the way for Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform program twenty years later. We will look first at key developments in Eastern European states, then Khrushchev's USSR and the early years of Brezhnev, followed by the Prague Spring of 1968 in Czechoslovakia and dissent in the Soviet Union.espite the Khrushchev thaw in the Soviet Union, the revolution in Hungary and the liberalization in Poland, Czechoslovakia remained an orthodox Stalinist state. A new, Stalinist-type constitution was approved in 1960; the school system continued to copy of the Soviet system.